On this episode of the Playbook, I have Thomas Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Colorado Campworks.

And we're going to talk about how taking a hike means something completely different at Campworks.

Join me for all of this and more on the Playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

And what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

I'm your host, David Meltzer.

I have a young entrepreneur, Thomas Hoffman, founder and CEO of Colorado Campworks.

Welcome to the Playbook, Thomas.

Thank you for having me, David.

You know, it's so incredible because I've done my due diligence on you.

When you have a younger entrepreneur, it's a little bit easier in the respect that there's

not like 16 million awards, 18 different jobs that are listed out.

But I'm always curious to start with, you went to college, which is always the first question

of a young entrepreneur. What is your opinion of college today?

And do you find that your experience at Boulder has assisted you in building this company?

Or do you find there could have been a cheaper, less time-restricted way of meeting your objectives?

Oh man, that's a great question.

So yeah, I studied at CU Boulder, EMVD, environmental design.

And that program was really specifically catered towards like giving design communication skills.

Right? So it was an architecture undergraduate, but it was really like,

how do you communicate what your ideas are in the vision you have?

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